[PATCH] dt-bindings: display: renesas: du: document R8A77980 bindings

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Wed Jun 6 07:04:32 UTC 2018


Hi Laurent,

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:49:57 EEST Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> On 06/05/2018 10:16 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> >>>> Document the R-Car V3H (R8A77980) SoC in the R-Car DU bindings; the DU
>> >>>> hardware seems the same as in the R-Car V3M (R8A77970).
>> >>>
>> >>> How about "the DU hardware has the same topology as in the R-Car V3M
>> >>> (R8A77970)" ? "seems" sounds like we're very unsure :-)
>> >>
>> >> That's probably better, indeed.
>> >>
>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ---
>> >>>> The patch is against the 'drm-next' branch of David Airlie's
>> >>>> 'linux.git' repo.
>> >>>
>> >>> Then you might want to switch to git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
>> >>> :-)
>> >>
>> >> No, the corresponding MAINTAINERS records don't include
>> >> drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/ or worse yet, the DU bindings. :-)
>>
>> Well, there is still no corresponding record, actually...
>>
>> > My point is that Dave's tree has moved.
>>
>> How am I supposed to learn about it, from gossips? :-)
>
> I learnt it the hard way when a pull request I had prepared against the old
> tree conflicted (at compile time) with patches merged in the new tree. This
> broke the build, and I learnt about the new tree from a kbuild bot report.

Updated repo list for renesas-drivers.
Thanks for letting me know!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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